THE NEXT ICE AGE - NOW!

Historic cold wave in Key West
13 Jan 10 - NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KEY WEST FL ... HISTORIC COLD WAVE
IN KEY WEST... THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS ... ONE OF THE LONGEST AND MOST
INTENSE PERIODS OF COLD WEATHER EVER RECORDED IN KEY WEST. TEMPERATURES
DROPPED WELL BELOW NORMAL IN THE WAKE OF A STRONG COLD FRONT ON JANUARY
2ND...AND REMAINED MORE THAN 10 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL EACH DAY ...
THROUGH JANUARY 12TH.

BELOW ARE THE
HIGH AND LOW TEMPERATURES...ALONG WITH THE DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL OF THE
DAILY AVERAGE TEMPERATURE...RECORDED AT KEY WEST AIRPORT EACH DAY SINCE
THE COLD WAVE BEGAN.

THE RECORD LOW
OF 42 DEGREES ON MONDAY JAN 11TH IS PARTICULARLY NOTEWORTHY... SHATTERED
PREVIOUS RECORD LOW FOR THE DATE BY SIX DEGREES... THE SECOND COLDEST
TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED

IN KEY
WEST...WITH TEMPERATURE RECORDS DATING BACK TO 1873. THE ALL TIME RECORD
LOW TEMPERATURE IN KEY WEST IS ONLY ONE DEGREE COLDER AT 41 DEGREES.
THIS HAS OCCURRED TWICE...ON JANUARY 13TH 1981...AND JANUARY 12TH 1886.

THE RECORD LOW
MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 52 DEGREES OBSERVED ON JANUARY 10TH WAS THE
COLDEST HIGH TEMPERATURE RECORDED IN KEY WEST IN ALMOST 70 YEARS...
JANUARY 28TH 1940...WHEN THE HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS ALSO JUST 52 DEGREES.
ONLY TWO COLDER HIGH TEMPERATURES HAVE EVER BEEN RECORDED IN KEY
WEST...51 DEGREES ON JANUARY 26TH 1905...AND THE ALL-TIME COLDEST HIGH
TEMPERATURE OF 48 DEGREES ON DECEMBER 29TH 1894.

WITH THE LOW
TEMPERATURE AT KEY WEST HAVING ALREADY DROPPED TO 47 DEGREES ...
TODAY...JANUARY 13TH...THERE HAVE NOW BEEN SEVEN CONSECUTIVE CALENDAR
DAYS WITH LOWS BELOW 50 DEGREES... FROM JANUARY 7TH THROUGH JANUARY
13TH... THE LONGEST STREAK OF DAYS WITH LOW TEMPERATURES LESS THAN 50
DEGREES EVER RECORDED IN KEY WEST. THE PREVIOUS RECORD STREAK WAS SIX
DAYS... WHICH OCCURRED DECEMBER 1ST THROUGH DECEMBER 6TH IN 1876.

BELOW ARE THE
LOW TEMPERATURES OBSERVED AT SELECTED LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE FLORIDA
KEYS ON THE COLDEST MORNING OF THIS EVENT... MONDAY JANUARY 11TH.